Swan 68

The Swan 68 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers as a blue water cruiser-racer and first built in 1991. The boat was built with two different transom designs, angled and reverse.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1992 until 2004, with 24 boats completed, but it is now out of production. The company considers the production run to have been "a great success for a yacht of this size".

Design
The Swan 68 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom or optional traditional angled transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 88184 lb and carries 35274 lb of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of 10.83 ft with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines Sabre diesel engine of 225 hp for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 375 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 435 u.s.gal.

Interior layouts vary, but typical is one with sleeping accommodation for seven people, with two forward cabins, each with two bunk beds, two L-shaped settees in the main cabin, a midship single cabin and a large aft cabin with a double berth on the port side. The galley is located on the port side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is C-shaped and is equipped with a four-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are four heads with showers, one for each cabin.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 4179 sqft.

The design has a hull speed of 9.91 kn and a PHRF handicap of 0 to -33.